Filmmaker Magazine

“I’m sure there were people staring at this crazy guy photographing a puppet in the middle of the forest.”

In his latest Considerations column, Tyler Coates (@tylercoates) speaks to cinematographer Caleb Deschanel about the making of WILDWOOD.

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“Who gives a shit about the audience? They are not mentally well.”

Dylan Adamson (@mesneezing) in conversation with Albert Serra, whose SIXTEEN MOMENTS OF MY LIFE, a concert film with Fassbinder muse Ingrid Caven, is a work of undivided attention.

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“Positioning a film in the marketplace is a metanarrative project, and securing the right venues for attention is a different thing from proving a film’s actual merit.”

Chloe Lizotte (@celizotte) on Taika Waititi’s anti-critic invective.

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“There are probably more miniatures used in this movie than you think.”

Kambole Campbell (@kambolecampbell) speaks with Takashi Yamazaki (@nostoro) about creature design and VFX in GODZILLA MINUS ZERO.

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“Some of the initial casting was done by the so-called Russian Ministry of Justice: we were choosing young women who had been named foreign agents.”

Leonardo Goi (@leonardogoi) speaks with Julia Loktev about MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART TWO — EXILE.

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